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The Kondo Screening Cloud

2001/11/17 by Ian Affleck, Affleck, Ian
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic properties of thin films #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Surface and Thin Film Phenomena #cond-mat.str-el

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0111321

Revtex, 11 pages, 10 postscript figures. To appear in the proceedings of the NATO ASI "Field Theory of Strongly Correlated Fermions and Bosons in Low - Dimensional Disordered Systems", Windsor, August, 2001

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Abstract

Renormalization group theory of the Kondo effect predicts that an impurity spin is screened by a conduction electron spread over a large distance of order >.1 to 1 micron. This review has the following sections: 1. The Kondo effect and the screening cloud, 2. Non-observation of the Kondo cloud in conventional experiments, 3. Kondo effect in transmission through a quantum dot, 4. Observing the screening cloud in persistent current experiments, 5. Side-coupled quantum dot, 6. Conclusions

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